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What is your religion?
As the title says. If your choice is not represented, please specify in this thread. Sorry, I meant to include an "other" choice, but I forgot, and there doesn't seem to be an option to edit polls. My bad.
I got into an argument about this with a buddy. I said that I think the majority of SFU, or any modern Canadian university (besides Trinity, heh!) will be mostly secular. Meaning, atheist, agnostic or apathetic. Apathetic, by the way, not a joke. Sadly many people fall into this category.
He disagrees, and claims that I'll be surprised to find that the majority are Christian. Well, we'll see. This is my bullshit totally non-scientific study on the subject. :)
If you feel like it, and I encourage you to, please tell us what you voted, and how secular-vs-religious you think SFU is.
My vote went to Atheist.
I got into an argument about this with a buddy. I said that I think the majority of SFU, or any modern Canadian university (besides Trinity, heh!) will be mostly secular. Meaning, atheist, agnostic or apathetic. Apathetic, by the way, not a joke. Sadly many people fall into this category.
He disagrees, and claims that I'll be surprised to find that the majority are Christian. Well, we'll see. This is my bullshit totally non-scientific study on the subject. :)
If you feel like it, and I encourage you to, please tell us what you voted, and how secular-vs-religious you think SFU is.
My vote went to Atheist.
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Also, I believe in science and I think the scientific theories of how the Earth was created makes MUCH more sense than the theological theories.
So there you go. I'm agnostic. I can't make up my mind (even though I am not, and have NEVER been, religious).
Atheist all the way. I took the philosophy courses, and I had long conversations with religious people from many different faiths, and I thought about it for a long time. I guess the closest religion I came to was Wiccan, and that's because you could do whatever the hell you wanted within reason... something I consider important in a faith! But that really wasn't for me (oddly, my mom adopted it once she read all my books).
I'm comfortable believing that I am made of biology and I will die. I don't need promises of reincarnation or an afterlife to make me be a good person.
In hell ye shalt roast for your disbelief :angry:
:tongue: :wink:
By the way, my bet is on there being more people of religious orientations than atheists or agnostics.
As for my religious beliefs, I will keep those concealed.
on a side note and not meant to be offensive... i really do sympathize christians.. for being burdened by birth to re-pay for the sin which they did not commit.. and if they doubt or somehow re-pay in the wrong way.. you roast in hell.. =S because i wouldn't give a damn about a sin that someone else committed centuries before my existence even meant anything..
I think i'd sooner cut off two toes than become religious
We agreed to give it a week, and we'd both abide by the decision of this poll. :) Of course, this is a self-selected sample (maybe atheists have a better chance of finding this forum for some reason, or a better chance of sticking around, or maybe atheists like polls more than religious people, heh,) but it's the best we can do while expending ~no effort. ;)
Atheism is the lack of belief in any deity (or god).
SFU is secular for sure, and the rest of Canada too. Why?
I think its because many people feel that if they openly practice/proclaim their religious beliefs they are infringing on the rights of others to do the same (eg a Christian may feel that he/she is offending a Jew by telling them "I am a Christian" so instead they say "I am an athiest" and the Jew will do the same. Little by little the society becomes more and more secular.)
That's my 2 cents
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Much to that effect, I personally would class myself under athiest. What angers me is that overly religious nuts seem to take that as a reason to want to sway you over to their side. I respect everybody's personal choice in faith and belief, and I know it takes a lot of commitment and devotion. But the second anybody tries to impose their beliefs on me, I lose what respect I had for them.
I can't think of a single time I've walked out of Granville Skytrain Station, and some old white lady isn't waiting there, ready to hand me the newest issue of The Watch Tower. And door-to-door missionaries? Well, they're not any better than the guy trying to sell knives or vacuum-cleaners anymore, are they? Religion is a hard-to-sell product these days, and it's becoming more and more obsolete as the years go by.
On a semi-related note, what do you guys think of these religious fanatics trying to push to have Creationism/Intelligent Design taught in schools?